IIS – Page 2 – My SharePoint Adventures

Administration

Maximum number of Web Parts for all zones exceeded

Andrew Toh

Problem A user tries to access / create / modify a personal view and receives the following message: Cause The user has created too many personal views. With personal views, SharePoint actually adds each view as a web part on the page. If a user has 10 personal views, there are actually 10 web parts […]

Administration, Development

InfoPath Form Publish Soap

Andrew Toh

Problem You try to publish an InfoPath form and get the following error: The publish operation could not be completed. It cannot be determined if the form template was successfully published. Try publishing the form template again, or change the list settings to use the default sharepoint form. The SOAP message cannot be passed. Cause This […]

Administration

SharePoint Multiple WFE Double Hop Authentication Fix

Andrew Toh

Problem When you have more than 1 web front end configured with load balancing / DNS round-robin, you will find that web service calls start to fail. For example, the GetUserProfile function that allows you to look up user information from the User Profile database will fail with the following error. The remote server returned […]

Administration

Configuring Forms Based Authentication for SharePoint 2010

Andrew Toh

I found this very useful guide on how to configure FBA for SharePoint 2010. http://donalconlon.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/configuring-forms-base-authentication-for-sharepoint-2010-using-iis7/ Problem Everything worked fine except for one, I could not add any .Net User to the SQL database. Solution The only thing that I had to add to get it to work completely was to modify the MembershipProvider under the […]

Administration

Browse to SharePoint site using IP Address

Andrew Toh

Problem Had an issue today while setting up my test environment at home. I was trying to browse to a newly created site collection using the Web Server’s IP address. The Web Server prompted me for username/password (note, the PC I am connecting from is not on the domain). After entering the correct credentials, I […]